MayFest

Mayfest is just 24 hours away now and while the staff are all psyching themselves up inn house (if you'll excuse the terrible pun) preparations are preceding a-pace.

The bottle store is so full you can hardly see the floor, the spirit store is full enough to make every move a careful one in case you trip over a box of wine and put your head through a bottle of whisky.

Meanwhile (the important one, to me at least) the cellar is rammed full of beer. With 6 different breweries providing 23 different ales for the first weekend alone we hope we have something to cater for everyone’s taste. There's everything from Williams Brothers' wonderful light hoppy Harvest Sun to An Teallach's fantastic caramel 80 shilling style An Teallach Ale to the Isle of Skye's deliciously dark Black Cuillin.

Also, we're going to be springing some new products on you over Mayfest. We've got a Holston alcohol free beer, bottles of Peroni lager and, as an initial trial but (with your support) continuing through the summer, Westons cider on hand pump. Having had difficulties getting hold of the Thatchers we've had over the last few years we've been looking for a change. I was going to make a political joke at this point but as they say alcohol and politics don't mix.

Hope to see you all over the next few weeks.

Martyn.